Ditching CloudWatch Logs for CloudTrail: How I Cut CloudWatch Costs by Over Half on a Recent Project

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you’ve ever set up CloudTrail and just… left the default CloudWatch Logs integration running, you’re probably paying more than you need to. I know I was.

The setup is almost too easy - CloudTrail ships events to a CloudWatch log group, you get a unified place to search logs, maybe you wire up a few metric filters for alerts. Done. Except the bill quietly grows every month and you don’t really notice until you actually look at it.

Streaming GitHub audit log to S3 with OpenID Connect - Troubleshooting

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Streaming GitHub audit log to one centralized place is quite often used to maintain compliance or improve security within the organization, or both.

If you are reading this post, you are having trouble setting up this stream to your AWS S3. I will show you two common mistakes that I experienced and solved.

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Ditching CloudWatch Logs for CloudTrail: How I Cut CloudWatch Costs by Over Half on a Recent Project

Streaming GitHub audit log to S3 with OpenID Connect - Troubleshooting